Hacker News: curt15

New comment by curt15 in "Federal Communications Commission scraps limit on broadcast TV ownership"

curt15 — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 19:41:38 +0000

> Doesn't that mean agencies like this are not free to set their own rules when a law is ambiguous?

Agencies can say whatever they want but courts are not required to defer to them when this inevitably goes to a lawsuit.

New comment by curt15 in "On non-rooted Android 17, ADB uninstall of system apps fails"

curt15 — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 16:34:23 +0000

Do you target macos or windows, which have always given users full control of software management?

New comment by curt15 in "I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux"

curt15 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 23:57:35 +0000

So EU "digital sovereignty" still means hitching most critical functionality to Google?

New comment by curt15 in "Civilian plane crash in New Mexico tied to military GPS blocking"

curt15 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 11:48:17 +0000

The quotes are appropriate because only Congress, not executive action, can change the official name.

New comment by curt15 in "Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science"

curt15 — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 22:20:24 +0000

Another interesting question is why the frontier labs are piling on pure maths, which has little direct economic value compared to something like law or improving the efficiency of their own models? How much OpenAI and Anthropic are paying to serve these models for ordinary users is the elephant in the room. A cynical take is that the frontier labs are trying their best to pump up their pre-IPO valuation through flashy headlines.

New comment by curt15 in "Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science"

curt15 — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 11:23:27 +0000

What about AI research itself? Is OpenAI close to automating its human staff out of a job?

New comment by curt15 in "US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search"

curt15 — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 11:40:02 +0000

Were you a Caucasian in China? Foreigners, particularly those from powerful Western countries, tend to get much more deferential treatment than locals.

New comment by curt15 in "GrapheneOS protections against data extraction from locked devices"

curt15 — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 16:06:56 +0000

Any independent reasons for your claim besides appeal to authority?

New comment by curt15 in "Your 'app' could have been a webpage (so I fixed it for you)"

curt15 — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 13:16:03 +0000

A lot of "native" apps rely on the Internet for essential functionality. Your Starbucks app would be deadweight if it couldn't pull your account info and store catalogs from starbucks.com.

New comment by curt15 in "Apple Silicon Exec Explains Mac Mini AI Demand and On-Device Future"

curt15 — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 11:38:08 +0000

Or just buy a MI300A server like https://www.servethehome.com/gigabyte-g383-r80-aap1-amd-inst...

New comment by curt15 in "Podman v6.0.0"

curt15 — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 16:19:31 +0000

It's interesting that Linux users have been conditioned to expect this level of coupling when any other user would find that absurd. Do Windows 10 users expect to be stuck on software from 2015? Should one have to switch to Windows Insiders just to run recent games?

New comment by curt15 in "Postgres transactions are a distributed systems superpower"

curt15 — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 11:53:42 +0000

The outbox is basically a local queue in front of the remote queue.

New comment by curt15 in "Android Developer Verification: Threat masquerading as protection"

curt15 — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 11:39:57 +0000

What happens if Google says "nope" to a developer who applied for ADV? Does the developer retain the ability to distribute their software to end users through whatever non-Google-approved channels they use today?

New comment by curt15 in "Android Developer Verification: Threat masquerading as protection"

curt15 — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 11:07:59 +0000

From day one, Google sought to attract customers to Android by marketing it as an "open" alternative to Apple's locked-down appliance model. Android couldn't quite compete with Apple's UI polish or battery life, but that was okay because Android sought to be a hand-held personal computer that could also make phone calls. The most important quality of personal computers, of course, is that they can run whatever software their users desire, including the users' own code.

Having gained their market share, Google now pulls a bait-and-switch by quietly retreating from Android's "open" messaging and philosophy. That's too bad for Google, because a mere appliance, it's worse than iPhone in every dimension.

New comment by curt15 in "Podman v6.0.0"

curt15 — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 20:56:38 +0000

Isn't Docker is basically a front end to containerd, the most common k8s container runtime? One could just as well ask why use a completely separate container stack just for local development when docker shares the same business end as the prod environment.

New comment by curt15 in "NSA lost access to Mythos amid Anthropic dispute"

curt15 — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 23:06:47 +0000

Would they be able to hire top ML talent with US government salaries?

New comment by curt15 in "Ten years of ClickHouse in open source"

curt15 — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 11:50:37 +0000

All the Jetbrains tooling as well.

New comment by curt15 in "U.S. science is in chaos"

curt15 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 11:21:09 +0000

> It’s a perfect example of research that does nothing except making people feel virtuous for doing the research.

You could say the same for basically any of the fundamental sciences since none of them translate to any appreciable short-term economic value. What is the point of continuing research in physics or mathematics? Math theorems don't convert immediately to industrial output. Why invest even one dollar into astrophysics instead of having people stargaze on their own dime? Should the US outsource basic research to other countries?

New comment by curt15 in "U.S. science is in chaos"

curt15 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:06:33 +0000

>This is a completely derivative conclusion from something I learned in molecular biology as an undergrad. The only "new" thing here is saying that poor people live in environments, since we've known for literally decades that DNA methylation is affected by environment.

It's one thing to theorize a causal relationship, but informed policy-making needs actual data that can only be obtained by legwork. What aspects of the social/cultural environment are we talking about? What genes are being expressed differently? What are their estimated health or economic impacts?

New comment by curt15 in "US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks"

curt15 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 17:18:40 +0000

"illicitly" implies a law that is being violated. What law?